NORMAN RUSSELL

Hello, reader! I hope that all's well with you. I am a graduate of Oxford and London universities, with the degrees of MA and PhD respectively. I served abroad in several regiments of the British Army before training as a teacher, and spending a very happy 26 years as Head of English in a comprehensive school in Liverpool UK. After accepting early retirement, I began a new career as an author, and to date I have had twenty novels published. My current publisher is the brilliant Joffe Books, who have just published the first of my Oldminster series of detective novels - more to follow!

My fiction leans towards the 'cosy' genre, though there are plenty of thrills and cunning plots to be found. I like to produce rounded characters who exist in their own right, rather than as just movers of the plot. My interests are mainly literary and academic, though I have plenty of time to observe the world as it is, and the countless wonderful people who inhabit it. If you like Agatha Christie, PD James and Catherine Moloney, then I think you'll like my work.